. Review of reviews and world's work. e other hand, writes with7nore intensity, a more poignant pity, and a less coolhead. Consequently, The Little Conscript (Double-day, Page) is a much Tiiore appealing piece of literaturethan The White Terror and the Red, but not. wesuspect, so trustworthy an account of actual condi-tions. There is enough of pity and terror, siirely, inThe Little Conscript. Mr. Brudno has .something ofthe pitiless power of the great Russian novelists. Thisappears far more in the character of the peasant, , than in the hero, Pavel. Pavel merits all sym-pathy, but he


. Review of reviews and world's work. e other hand, writes with7nore intensity, a more poignant pity, and a less coolhead. Consequently, The Little Conscript (Double-day, Page) is a much Tiiore appealing piece of literaturethan The White Terror and the Red, but not. wesuspect, so trustworthy an account of actual condi-tions. There is enough of pity and terror, siirely, inThe Little Conscript. Mr. Brudno has .something ofthe pitiless power of the great Russian novelists. Thisappears far more in the character of the peasant, , than in the hero, Pavel. Pavel merits all sym-pathy, but he is just a shade too perfect. But work deserves generous recognition. It is tobe remembered that both he and Mr. Calian had firstto acquire as a foreigu tongue the language iu whichtliey now write. 764 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REI^/EIV OF REVIEWS. DUTCH Miiiirtiii .Maartens has painted a series of realistictienre pictures in Poor Kelatious (Appletons). Helias very little mercy on his Dutch peasants. Their life,. MAARTEN MAAKTENS. as he represents it, is without any glimpses of thingsfair and of good report. Greed and envy and lust areits dominant factors. Nor does Mr. Maartens care forhalf-lights, shadings, or suppression. The outlines inhis pict;.ires are hard, the colors definite and it is this very quality, this stern truthfulness, that,combined with a no less stern svippression of self, givesthe stories their high and peculiar quality. One maygo so far as to compare them to De Maupassants, thoughhardly to that masters best. A STRONG NOVEL OF MODERN GERMANY. A German novel the sale of wiiich reaches 200,000copies is something unheard of. But the unheard ofhas happened, and the novel is Jorn Uhl, by GustavFrenssen, Lutheran pastor in a Holstein village. (Thevery competent English translation is by F. S. Estes & Co., Boston. Archibald Constable, Lon-don.) It is very interesting to note that this novel,which has appealed so profoundl


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